WWW Full Form
| Acronym |
Full-Form |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
World Wide Web or WWW is a catalogue of an order of all websites connected to the worldwide Internet. The WWW is an information system where the linked hypertext data and resources are accessed over the internet. A user can access a web page using a web browser and navigate between the web pages using hyperlinks where texts, images, and other multimedia data and content can be carried on a website page.
World Wide Web: Protocols Used
WWW uses three protocols, namely
- Uniform resource locator (URLs)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Hypertext markup language (HTML)
World Wide Web: History
- The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. The HTTP protocol was created by them which standardized server-client communication. Their text-based Web browser was made available for publication in January 1992.
- Set up by Marc Andreessen and others at the National Center for Supercomputing, the World Wide Web quickly gained recognition with the development of a web browser called Mosaic at the University of Illinois in the United States and launched in September 1993.
- Andreessen co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation, in April 1994. Soon after its launch, Netscape Navigator became a powerful Web browser.
- Microsoft Corporation, a giant software company, 1995, established its own Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Internet Explorer was incorporated into the Windows operating system in 1996 and IE shortly became a popular Web browser.
- Mozilla’s Firefox, launched in 2004 was the first real competitor to IE.
- Google Chrome was launched in 2008. By 2013, Chrome had become a powerful browser compared to IE and Firefox. In 2015, Microsoft replaced IE with Edge.
Advantages
- Assisting you with your studies.
- Doing grocery and other shopping online.
- Contacting relatives and friends.
Disadvantages
- The pages could be misleading and may steal your data or cash.
- Harassment, abuse, racism, etc. are common nowadays.
